Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not… — Gil Hodges Copy Share Image
You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
“If you have a parent who doesn’t push you to be the best you can be, that is not a parent who… — S.J. West Copy Share Image
Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The parents pull you aside and say, 'I have to give credit where credit is due, you really are sacrificing a lot… — Charlie Batch Copy Share Image
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother… — Yaya DaCosta Copy Share Image
I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with… — Mario Balotelli Copy Share Image
It's so interesting, when you're a parent, you have these big ideals. Before I had kids, you imagine this sort of egalitarian… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent.… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself a little bit of relief. That was a lot less bad than I though it would be. "Of course,… — August Westman Copy Share Image
I was educated in a deeply kind of un-politically-correct way. I went to St. John's College which is this kind of Great… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there… — Frances Ruffelle Copy Share Image
My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to… — Nancy Kerrigan Copy Share Image
During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the… — Garik Israelian Copy Share Image
